Greetings,

I hope that I am not going to be wasting anyone's time here, however, I have not seen this addressed.

I am trying to implement jZed's DBD::AnyData module to parse a flat file db. My test code is:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
use DBD::AnyData;

print qq[content-type: text/html\n\n];

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData(RaiseError=>1):');

my $table  = 'mothers'; 
my $format = 'Pipe'; 
my $file   = 'databases/mothers.tbl';
my $flags  = ''; # The first row holds the field names

$dbh->func( $table, $format, $file, $flags, 'ad_catalog');

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM mothers WHERE name = 'Sandra'")
+;
$sth->execute();

while (my $row = $sth->fetch) {print "@$row<br />";}

1;
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The "table" consists of one record:

name|age|address|phone
Sandra | 46 | 1252 Some St, Anywhere, WI 12345 | 123-456-7890
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I was getting some wierd results and so went in and activated the debugging code left in place. Specifically, the code is located at line 529 in the open_table sub as follows:

print join("\n", $format,@$file,$createMode), "\n";

This would return the error -

DBD::AnyData::st execute failed: Can't use string ("databases/mothers.tbl") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at DBD/AnyData.pm line 529, <GEN0> line 1.

So, I replaced the print and join statement with the following -

if (ref($file) eq 'ARRAY'){print join("\n", $format, @$file, $createMo
+de), "\n";}<br />
else {print join("\n", $format, $file, $createMode), "\n";}
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This then allows the printing of $file when it was not an array ref.

As I said, I hope that I have not wasted anyone's time with this. And btw, where is that stand alone version? My host does not have this pm or many of the supporting pms.

Humbly -
Ron Goral